Abstract Language-users reduce words in predictable contexts. Previous research indicates
that reduction may be stored in lexical representation if a word is often reduced. Because …

Although computational models can simulate aspects of human sentence processing,
research on this topic has remained almost exclusively limited to the single language case …

Speakers can produce utterances with more or less articulatory detail or even completely
omit certain words, while still conveying the same message. Similar reduction exists at …

This paper investigates the emergence of lexicalized effects of word usage on word duration
by looking at parallel changes in usage and duration over 130 years in New Zealand …

Abstract The Uniform Information Density principle states that speakers plan their utterances
to reduce fluctuations in the density of the information transmitted. In this paper, we test …

The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis, which posits that speakers behaving
optimally tend to distribute information uniformly across a linguistic signal, has gained …

This book investigates the syntax and usage of fragments (Morgan 1973), apparently
subsentential utterances like" A coffee, please!" which fulfill the same communicative …

Research on probabilistic pronunciation variation has generally focused on contextual
probability, or the probability of using a linguistic unit (segment, syllable, word, etc.) in the …

Speakers repeat constructions frequently in dialogue. Due to their peculiar information-
theoretic properties, repetitions can be thought of as a strategy for cost-effective …

About half of the discourse relations annotated in Penn Discourse Treebank (Prasad et al.,
2008) are not explicitly marked using a discourse connective. But we do not have extensive …